Hosiery box



A. w. ZERBY 1,728,385

HOSIERY BOX Sept. 17, 1929. I

Filed June 6, 1928 81411014450! I kflimz Patented Sept. 17, 1929 1,728,385

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ARTHUR W. ZERBY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA HOSIERY BOX Application filed June 6, 1928. Serial No. 283,322.

This invention relates to improvements in of the drawing, and the leg portions, being boxes and it pertains more particularly to considerably wider, will extend the full boxes intended to receive and display womwidth of the box, at the rear of the abutens hosiery. ments of the members 4. and this structure The invention consists of a plurality of will prevent the sliding or slipping of the so-called frogs located inside the lower folded stockings. portion of a hosiery box, and so arranged The frog members may be made integralthat when the stocking is folded, the toe and ly with the box, or they may be made of heel portions will be received in and held separate pieces of material and inserted in the spaces ordinarily intended for them, therein, the essential feature being to so so while the leg portion, when properly folded locate them at one end of the box, that the will lie in the box and abut against the toe and heel portions will be properly squared ends of a pair of oppositely dishoused while the leg portions will be preposed frog members, to effectually prevent vented from rolling or piling up upon 1 sliding or rolling. themselves. 65

The invention is more fully described in Having thus fully described my inventhe following specification and clearly illustion, what I claim and desire to secure byv trated in the accompanying drawing, in Letters Patent is whiohz- 1. In a hosiery box for womens stock- Figure 1 is a plan view of the lower boxings, a body portion, and a plurality of To member, showing the location therein of the frog members located inside thereof, at one frogs. end, said frog members having tapered Figure 2 is a like view, with one or more walls to form receiving spaces for the toe stockings in position therein. and heel portions of the folded stockings,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal, central secand two of said frog members having right 7 tonal view of the box. angled abutments to engage and prevent The numeral 1 designates the lower pormovement of the folded leg portions of the tion of the box, into which the stockings stockings. I

are to be placed. 2. In a hosiery box, the combination of a 2 designates the end frog, of substantialbody portion, a triangular frog located at 1y triangular form, to provide two tapered one end thereof and a pair of oppositely diswalls 3. posed side frogs at the same end of the 4 designates a pair of oppositely disposed body and in close proximity to the triangufrog members, located at the same end of lar frog, said frogs having tapered faces to the boX as is the aforementioned triangular form receiving spaces for the heel and too member, and in close proximity thereto. port-ions of the stockings, and the side frogs These members 4 are each formed with a tahaving squared rear ends to form abutments pered end 6, at that end which approaches for the leg portions of the folded stockings. the triangular member, but sufliciently spaced In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. therefrom to provide a pair of heel and toe ARTHUR W. ZERBY. receptacles 7' for the folded stockings. The rear ends of the members 4; are cut off at rightangles to the body, forming a pair of abutments 8, against which the folded 45 leg portions of the stockings will hear when the stockings are properly folded and in sorted in the box.

The stockings are folded and laid in the box with the toe and heel portions alter- 50 nately arranged, as indicated in Figure 2 

